SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Maryury Elizabeth Serrano-Hernandez was greater than seven months pregnant when she left Honduras.

At simply 19, she and her husband Miguel Ortiz, together with their three-year-old son, traveled greater than 2,000 miles searching for a greater life.

Typically they walked. Different occasions they relied on rides from strangers or traveled on crowded vans used to move pigs. They slept in tents on sidewalks and washed up the place they might.

Late final month, they lastly made their technique to Tijuana, Mexico, the place hundreds of different Central People had gathered, hoping to cross into america.

On the makeshift camp, Serrano-Hernandez and her husband say they feared for his or her security after being surrounded by Mexicans who weren’t comfortable they had been there. Scared and outnumbered, they determined to cross the border illegally.

“With the religion in God, I all the time mentioned my son will likely be born there (in America),” Serrano-Hernandez informed Univision, which documented components of their journey.

After someway climbing the border wall, the younger Honduran household had been met by three border patrol brokers who demanded they return to Tijuana. The household refused and requested for asylum. They had been taken to the Imperial Seaside Station in San Diego County for processing.

Because the occasions had been unfolding nevertheless, Serrano-Hernandez might inform one thing wasn’t fairly proper.

“The day I got here throughout, I felt a bit of ache, however I believed will probably be due to my nerves,” she mentioned.

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol company informed Fox Information: “The lady, who was eight months pregnant, started complaining of stomach ache (Nov. 27) and was instantly transported to an area hospital by Border Patrol brokers.”

Serrano-Hernandez was in labor. Quickly thereafter, she gave beginning to a child boy.

She is believed to be the primary member of the migrant caravan to have a baby after crossing the border to hunt asylum.

Nevertheless it wasn’t all roses and rainbows after that.

“I felt like a prison,” Serrano-Hernandez mentioned.

Her husband claims immigration officers, who stood guard outdoors the hospital room, closed all of the home windows and tried putting handcuffs on the brand new mom moments after giving beginning. In addition they inspected meals introduced in by nurses and monitored individuals coming into and exiting the room. The nurses held a drive and gifted the household garments, diapers and child wipes however Ortiz says as soon as his household returned to the San Diego detention heart, their property was confiscated.

Central American migrants stroll alongside the U.S. border fence searching for locations they may be capable of cross, in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Dec. 5. (AP Picture/Rebecca Blackwell)

Border Patrol didn’t reply to particular inquiries Fox Information made about whether or not brokers took the objects, nor did they reply to requests in search of information on the variety of pregnant ladies making related makes an attempt to present beginning on U.S. soil. Border Patrol did inform Fox Information that the household was “positioned into immigration proceedings and launched on their very own recognizance on December 2.”

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The information comes after President Trump vowed to cease migrants from coming into the U.S. He’s ramped up rhetoric in regards to the varieties of individuals in search of asylum and claims many within the caravan are hardened criminals and able to wreak havoc. He’s additionally despatched hundreds of troops to patrol the border.

The border mission was supposed to return to an finish on Dec. 15, however on Tuesday, Protection Secretary James Mattis prolonged the deployments of energetic responsibility troops into early 2019.

At present, there are about 5,600 troops stationed in Texas, Arizona and California. Some troops in California have been serving to Border Patrol place concertina wire and assemble concrete limitations at border crossing factors – one thing Mattis indicated final week was near completion.

The controversy on the border – and the administration’s response to it – has polarized a lot of the nation. Final month, pictures of federal brokers firing tear gasoline on a whole bunch of migrants created outrage with a number of high-ranking Democrats blaming the White Home. These complaints had been tamped down after information from the Division of Homeland Safety revealed that brokers additionally used tear gasoline on the U.S.-Mexico border dozens of occasions through the Obama administration.